What do you hope to achieve by reading STEM books by yourself?

>>24555858 (OP)
Mild intellectual edification

>>24555858 (OP)
Just clear and distinct knowledge, nothing much to get out of them.

>>24555863
>>24555864
But anons here say reading philosophy and fiction is a waste of time, but STEM isn't? What do you get out of reading STEM that you don't out of Plato?

>>24555870
Mild intellectual edification

>>24555858 (OP)
knowledge

>>24555870
>But anons here say reading philosophy and fiction is a waste of time, but STEM isn't?
Idk man, that sounds like a statement you'd find on /sci/ or /his/, not on /lit/, I've found that people here generally love philosophy and fiction. You're fighting ghosts.
>What do you get out of reading STEM that you don't out of Plato?
Mild intellectual edification, clear and distinct knowledge. One reads philosophy for different reasons, same with fiction (both with theory-fiction).

>>24555882
>>24555885
Those are a means not an end, what should those lead to?

>>24555904
No, it's an opinion I find everyday both irl and here. Can you tell me why do you attain knowledge? Where do you end up applying it in your life? I am just curious

>>24555913
Then you're in the wrong threads, I've been browsing this place for about a decade now and I've only been in threads with people that love to discuss philosophy. Very few are anti-philosophy. irl sure, but just by looking at the catalogue one notices that this place values philosophy in a higher degree than STEM.
>>24555909
Some are just in it for the means then. Autism is a hell of a thing, faggot.

>>24555909
can't a nigga just like knowing things? very anti-nietzschean type shit ya heard'?

>>24555923
Okay, no need to sperg out. Can you answer question in "Can you tell me why do you attain knowledge? Where do you end up applying it in your life?" or do you not know?
>>24555933
Then it's as a means to entertainment. Which is next door to sophism. And pretty useless if your life is gonna be making fries at the drive-thru.

>>24555935
>Then it's as a means to entertainment. Which is next door to sophism. And pretty useless if your life is gonna be making fries at the drive-thru.
sure, why not. a nigga don't care what you think bout, ya heard'? them fries gonn be good too, faggot

>>24555950
Cuz you're not gonna have any power and be subjugated by the one who makes it useful, ya heard? That's why black niggas like you be selling those coke bricks ya know what i mean? Not working no bitchass 9-5

Is he okay

>>24555858 (OP)
I read Euclid not STEM, the acronym STEM doesn't appear in any of the books I read, by reading Euclid I will not only have a better understanding of greek thoughts but the thoughts of many learned men for thousands of years stand upon the work of euclid and he and his geometry is mentioned in many of the /lit/ top 100 books

>>24556090
nice I'll read euclid

>>24555955
this isn't him lol are you brown?

>>24555909
Mild intellectual edification

>>24556105
You fell off, BAP

>>24556404
Be quiet bot

>>24555909
acquiring knowledge is an end itself (it's fun)

>>24555858 (OP)
get some helpful info, probably idk